CPL Seminar: 'The Normative Content of Human Rights - The Right to Privacy'

Speaker: Dr Kirsty Hughes
Location: Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law

My forthcoming book examines the content of the right to privacy contained in Article 8 ECHR. The book draws together privacy theory and the jurisprudence to examine the development and limits of the right. Underpinning that analysis is the argument that there should be some normative content to the right; that there should be some notion of what a right to privacy entails, when it is engaged, and what is lost when it is infringed. In this research seminar I will examine the ways in which the right is addressed by courts, the reasons behind limited engagement with the normative content, and the consequences of this for the development of the right.

Faculty Members and Visitors, PhD students and LLM Public Law students are welcome.

For more information contact Mark Elliott (mce1000@cam.ac.uk)